Real-life one time pad used by the CIA for crypto (Photo)

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5 pointsmayank3 comments

I'd take issue with the description: "If used as designed, encryption by OTP is virtually unbreakable."

If used as designed, encryption by OTP is provably unbreakable.

More specifically, it is provably unbreakable because all possible plaintexts are equally as likely as the actual plaintext for the encrypted message.

I want that font.

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